Top Opera Quotes
I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera.
Luciano Pavarotti
That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes.
Mordechai Vanunu
The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself.
Nellie Melba
If you can sell green toothpaste in this country, you can sell opera.
Sarah Caldwell
I like soap opera acting. If it's done really well, there's nothing better. It's old school. It's like what those melodramas in the '30s and '40s were like.
Parker Posey
Tom Wopat 
Bruce Beresford 
Marcel Marceau 
Andrea Bocelli 
Joan Collins 
Nana Mouskouri 
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The opera tells the story with all the built-in contradictions and from many different angles.
Harrison Birtwistle 
42% of people like this quote
We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi.
Cecilia Bartoli
41% of people like this quote
Many years ago I was in another soap opera called The Newcomers which was on twice a week for three years. I really don't think I could do another stint like that again.
Jeremy Bulloch
40% of people like this quote
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
Dario Argento
39% of people like this quote
A show like Knots or any other show that can be called a soap opera does terribly in syndication because if you're a viewer and you miss a week you don't know what's going on.
William Devane
38% of people like this quote
You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In such an enormous space you can't put much faith in the personal presence of the individual singer, which is reflected in facial expressions, among other things.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
36% of people like this quote
I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.
Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
30% of people like this quote
I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.
Anthony Davis
26% of people like this quote
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